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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"sitcom"”.
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A shanda fur de Yehudim: Jewishness in network sitcom television.
… is a cultural study of Jewishness in network sitcom television. Sources for the study included: historical film analysis, sociological studies on stereotyping and Jewish culture. The thesis studies how past forms of Jewishness impacted the current depictions of Jewishness on the television …
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Producing Representation: Re-Visiting Jewish Women in/on the American Sitcom
… Jewish womanhood on the American television sitcom through the subjective experiences of television production workers, the representations they produce, and the conceptual audiences they produce them for. It grapples with the contradictions behind Jewishness and gender, and questions why …
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Television sitcom production at the BBC 1973-1984: an integrated approach
Between 1973 and 1984 BBC Television produced and transmitted a number of popular situation comedies. These were designed to be light-hearted, inoffensive entertainment, but they nevertheless explored, reflected and reinforced changing public attitudes to private sexual behaviour. Central to the …
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Second Story Television: Multi-Camera Sitcom Spaces, Objects, and the Suburban Spatial Imaginary
… spatial imaginary with regard to multi-camera sitcoms from the 1990s. I contend that the physical flatness of the multi-camera set construction is tied to the ideological presentation of suburban life. Through a textual analysis of moments in these sitcoms, I explore how they (through their …
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Beyond the kitchen : strategies for overcoming L.A.'s 194X-196X sitcom-suburban domesticity
Beyond the Kitchen aims to propose an alternative view of thinking suburbia by suggesting the cultural and spatial consideration of its domesticity. Therefore, the thesis initiates by hypothesizing upon suburbia's contemporary popularity and proceeds through the understanding of the ranch-style …
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"Motherhood", "the family" and Murphy Brown : New Zealanders' receptions of an American sitcom text
… controversial episode of the American sitcom Murphy Brown. It also assesses the extent to which this programme was able to 'set the agenda' for discursive understandings of 'motherhood' and 'the family' in contemporary New Zealand society. Drawing on various insights derived from …
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A Corpus-based analysis of the Construction of Identities in the BBC Sitcom Citizen Khan
… and the construction of identities in the BBC sitcom Citizen Khan, which is centred around a family living in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham. In order to carry out this analysis a 40,000 word corpus was created, consisting of transcripts of the thirteen episodes from the first two seasons of …
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"Our real family, the one we chose" : the function of comfort in the sitcom family.
Throughout history, the sitcom has continually been used as a form of comfort for the viewer. The original sitcoms of the 1950s were filled with themes that reinforced the stability of the traditional family model after the cultural shifts during the world wars. While that style of sitcom and its …
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Tiempo dramático y tiempo de la ficción en la sitcom : el caso de Friends (1994-2004)
Fil: Agosta, Inés María. Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina
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Flawed Masculinities: “Rupturing” 1950s/60s/70s British TV Sitcom via a Performance-led Interdisciplinary Arts Practice
… inspiration certain male characters from TV sitcoms from the 1950s-1970s. Those characters are: Tony Hancock (Hancock’s Half- Hour, 1956-59, BBC1 UK); Harold Steptoe (Steptoe and Son, 1962-65, BBC1 UK); and the two “Likely Lads”, Bob Ferris and Terry Collier, (Whatever Happened To The Likely …
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Challenges and strategies of subtitling humour : a case study of the American sitcom Seinfeld, with particular reference to English and Arabic
… in the subtitling of humour in the American sitcom, Seinfeld. The study also identifies the subtitling strategies used by Arab translators to solve the technical, linguistic and cultural problems of translating humour in Seinfeld, and it uncovers the factors that might have affected the …
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Layer Cake: Post-Cinematic Aesthetics and the “Social Justice Impulse” in Kaneza Schaal's Jack &
… theory, I argue that Schaal’s citation of 1950s sitcom aesthetics in her 2018 theatrical work <em>Jack &</em> self-consciously stages a critique of the cultural hegemony that structured twentieth century television in order to contest the contemporary US media-incarceration nexus.</p> <p>As a …
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Contentious comedy : negotiating issues of form, content, and representation in American sitcoms of the post-network era
… as one of television's most durable genres, the sitcom must be understood as a dynamic form that develops over time in response to changing social, cultural and institutional circumstances. By providing detailed case studies of the sitcom output of competing broadcast, pay-cable, and niche …
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The Diverse Portrayals of the American Family in Major Situation Comedies from the 1950s to the 2000s
… life images then to notice how each and every sitcom affected the other. The process of transformation of values and family relationships were that excited me the most in the popular representations. (Introduction)
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Is it Really Skin Deep? An Analysis of "Ugly Betty's" Influence on Females' Understanding of Beauty
… two open discussions of beauty. The television sitcom Ugly Betty, which features an alternative framing of beauty standards, was shown between each discussion and used to analyze the media's influence. The results show that the discussion and the new framing of beauty and ugliness in the clip …
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"I think I just saw another version of it": An investigation of product placement - Ad congruity and exposure timing on product recognition and attitude
… ad for a product that is placed in an online sitcom affects audiences’ recognition of and attitude toward the product. Because the ad and placement may serve as primes for each other, effects of timing of the ad (relative to the appearance of the product) were also assessed. Findings …
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La traducción del género de humor basado en el uso de la lengua: el caso práctico de Arrested Development
… la hipótesis de que el modesto éxito de esta sitcom en España está relacionado con el problemático trasvase lingüístico que encarna la serie por su único y excepcional uso de la lengua original.
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Identity of a Single Black Woman
… community. This paper will analyze the network sitcom <em>Girlfriends</em> focusing on how mediated images are performed and presented as they relate to single black women. Specifically, examine how popular culture still perpetuates heteronormative ideologies and stereotypical representations of …
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My America
… as a family. I have used the 1980's television sitcom, The Cosby Show, as a reference for what I aspire to be as a Black male in America. The title My America is inspired by a John Biggers book titled My America. These two major influences were significant in making this body of work. I …
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Viewing postmodernist television : Moonlighting, Twin Peaks and The Simpsons
… a soap opera, and The Simpsons, an animated sitcom. Deploying parody, self-reflexivity and intertextuality, each has a complex relation with genre. Tony Bennett conceives of the latter as zones of sociality which constitute and are constituted by other zones (105). Changes in genre therefore …
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